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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457335103321

Autore

Jaeger C. Stephen

Titolo

Ennobling love [[electronic resource] ] : in search of a lost sensibility / / C. Stephen Jaeger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999

ISBN

1-283-21109-2

9786613211095

0-8122-0062-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages series

Disciplina

809.933543

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Love in literature

Literature, Medieval

Nobility of character

Nobility of character in literature

Love

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Charismatic love and friendship -- pt. 2. Sublime love -- pt. 3. Unsolvable problems-- romantic solutions : the romantic dilemma.

Sommario/riassunto

"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean."Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? An extraordinary amount, as Stephen Jaeger demonstrates.Unlike current efforts to read medieval culture through modern mores, Stephen Jaeger contends that love and sex in the Middle Ages relate to each other very differently than in the



postmedieval period. Love was not only a mode of feeling and desiring, or an exclusively private sentiment, but a way of behaving and a social ideal. It was a form of aristocratic self-representation, its social function to show forth virtue in lovers, to raise their inner worth, to increase their honor and enhance their reputation. To judge from the number of royal love relationships documented, it seems normal, rather than exceptional, that a king loved his favorites, and the courtiers and advisors, clerical and lay, loved their superiors and each other.Jaeger makes an elaborate, accessible, and certain to be controversial, case for the centrality of friendship and love as aristocratic lay, clerical, and monastic ideals. Ennobling Love is a magisterial work, a book that charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810246803321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of ageism / / Erdman B. Palmore, Laurence Branch, Diana K. Harris, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Routledge, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-315-04397-1

1-135-42294-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

305.26/03

Soggetti

Ageism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Abuse in nursing homes; Abuse by elders in nursing homes; Advertising; African Americans; Age conflict; Age denial; Age inequality; Age norms; Age segregation; Age stratification; Aged as a minority group; Ageism in the Bible; Ageism survey; Age-specific public programs; Alcoholism; Antiaging medicine; Architecture; Art; Arts; Assisted living; Attribution theory; Benefits of



aging; Biological definitions of aging; Blaming the aged; Books; Botox; Cards ; Change strategies; Changes in attitudes

Children's attitudesChildren's literature; Churches; Cohorts; Consent to treatment; Cost-benefit analysis; Costs of ageism; Criminal victimization; Cross-cultural ageism; Cultural lag; Cultural sources or ageism; Definitions; Demographic trends; Dentistry; Disability; Discounts; Disengagement theory; Driver's license testing; Education; Employment discrimination; Ethical issues; Euphemisms; Face-lifts; Facts on Aging Quiz; Facts on Aging and Mental Health Quiz; Family; Financial abuse; Functional age; Future of ageism; Generational equity; Geriatrics; Gerontocracy; Gerontology; Health care

HispanicsHistory; HIV/AIDS; Hollywood; Housing; Human rights of older persons; Humor; Hypertension; Individual sources of ageism; Intergenerational projects; Isolation ; Japan ; Journalism ; Language ; Legal review program ; Legal system ; Literature ; Living wills ; Mandatory retirement of judges ; Measuring ageism in children ; Medical students ; Memory and cognitive function ; Memory stereotypes ; Mental illness ; Modernization theory ; Nursing ; Nursing homes ; Organizations opposing ageism ; Patronizing; Pension bias; Perpetual youth; Physical therapy; Politics; Positive Aging Newsletter

Public policyReducing ageism; Responses to ageism; Retirement communities; Role expectations; Scapegoating; Self-fulfilling prophecy; Semantic differential scale; Senior centers; Sexism; Sexuality; Slogans; Social psychology; Social Security; Societal ageism; Songs; Stage theory; Stereotypes; Subcultures; Successful aging; Suicide; Tax breaks; Television; Terms preferred by older people; Theories of aging; Transportation; Types of ageists; Typologies; Unconscious ageism; Voice quality; Index